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Sketchy Ideas Episode 54: Don't Trust Your Gut

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: 30 Intro

  • Opening remarks

    • 2:00 Intro to Topic

    • You are responsible for success of your organization
      • Trusting your gut has gotten you this far
      • Trusting your gut can lead to wrong decisions
      • Dive into decision making and understanding importance of what is going on when making those decisions

        • 4:24 Jump into “gut feelings” and science behind topic

        • “Trusting your gut can lead you astray”- B
        • Gut and brain are connected in different ways
        • Importance of digestive health
          • People who were working out still not healthy
          • Emotional and mental health
          • Your gut has 500 million neurons and that is why you get butterflies and strong emotions
          • GABA: helps control your feelings of fear and anxiety
          • Getting back into shape is just as much nutrition as it is exercise

            • 8:00 perspective on topic for business owners

            • “Do a gut check on yourself to understand the importance of why gut decisions are good” - B
            • A lot of people make gut decisions but not making solid ones because their gut is not healthy
            • “Intuition comes from making  pattern recognition”-M
              • Comes from patterns we recognize and make decision from

                • 12:24 Common Sense

                • “Common sense is a myth”-M
                • Common sense is based on experience
                • Intuition is based and calibrated on your experiences the same way mine is based and calibrated on mine and the more experiences I’ve had and the better I paid attention to those the better and more accurate my patterns is going to be.
                • It is important to pay attention to patterns above subconscious
                  • That is how we can improve our gut health
                  • Understanding that intuition is a compilation of historical data

                    • 16:34 Understanding why gut health is harder to understand now

                    • We are experiencing conditions and operating under new conditions
                      • Because of pandemic
                      • No familiar experiences to this that we can draw from
                      • If we are self aware then we would notice this is a different condition

                        • 17:30 inbound info

                        • In the 90s only getting hundreds of ads
                        • 10,000 a day and that was from 2017 study
                          • This is skewing pattern recognition
                          • Our gut decision is less effective because of all the noise and inbound info we are experiencing
                          • “Trust your gut if you calibrate it” -M

                            • 20:27 Age of internet

                            • Previous to the age of internet, gut decisions worked
                            • Now that there is internet we are loaded with trillions of ads skewing our gut decision and intuition
                            • How to calibrate gut:
                              • Awareness of the problem
                              • Be aware of the decisions you are trying to make and evaluate them. Articulate, stop and figure out  why you got there
                              • Check assumptions to see if it is really like the situation you thought of
                                • Can stop if not working or proceed with decision making
                                • Make a decision based on the objective of reality now that you’ve gathered facts

                                  • 28:10

                                  • Relate to scientific method and college self

                                    • 30:29 - Overview/End remarks

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